Robert H. Milroy

Robert Huston Milroy (11 June 1816-29 March 1880) was a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Robert Huston Milroy was born in Salem, Indiana in 1816, and he served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War, although he never saw any action. He became a lawyer and judge in Rensselaer, Indiana after the war, and he was made colonel of an Indiana regiment of the Union Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He was promoted to Brigadier-General on 3 September 1861, and he commanded a brigade during Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign and at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Milroy was promoted to Major-General on 10 March 1863, and, on 15 June, he was dealt a humiliating defeat in the Second Battle of Winchester. He transferred to the Western Theater to serve as a recruiter for the Army of the Cumberland, frequently banishing or executing Confederate sympathizers. Milroy redeemed himself at the Third Battle of Murfreesboro in 1864, although he again suffered heavy losses. He resigned on 26 July 1865 following the war's end and went on to serve as a trustee of the Wabash and Erie Canal Company, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Washington Territory from 1872 to 1875, and as an Indian agent from 1875 to 1885, and he died in Olympia, Washington in 1890.